To go into yet another high school size gym with less than a sell out crowd and
lose to a second tier team just hollers that the Cougs just don't have a
competitive team. They play pretty well at home, but on the road, they just
don't have it.

The only realistic chance they have for an NCAA
berth is to win the WCC tournament.

How is that anyone with a cell phone practically anywhere in the world can take
a photo and send it almost anywhere within seconds and newspapers in Utah run
photos of events that occurred weeks or months ago?

"4. BYU will end St. Mary’s
streak" According to what evidence? Regardless, how much would beating a
bubble team help?

"3. BYU is excellent in February"
Debunked.

"2. The Cougars have a week to prepare for Gonzaga"
But not gain players that can match up with Gonzaga.

"1. Tyler
Haws will lead the Cougars to the tournament" Again, according to what
evidence? I'd need to see him lead them past a tournament-quality team
before I'd entertain the thought of him leading them to the tournament.

Sorry, Mr. Vincent, your little piece this afternoon was a tad off.

In all seriousness, this definitely wasn't a game I expected the
Cougars to lose, but I'm not really surprised by it, either. They've
had too many close wins against bad teams to expect their fortunes to continue.
I'm sure the fans will be happy to hopefully have at least one more home
game after the conference tourney, though.

I like Brandon Davies... I think he is a super kid with good solid values and a
pretty good basketball player when he's not shooting free throws...

I like Dave Rose... A good guy and a solid coach with a good record to
prove it... But his teams often stink at shooting free throws...

Free
Throws for BYU Basketball is like Place Kicking for BYU Football... It almost
seems like little to no time is spent recruiting it, practicing it, or coaching
it (The BYU bigs all have horrible technique... They don't bend their
knees, they fall away while they are shooting it, they don't balance
themselves, and they seem to almost invision a miss before they shoot)... Maybe
BYU should hire a free throw specialist for Basketball and a Kicking Expert for
Football and put them on their staffs... How many more games would we win if the
team could routinely execute those skills? Answer: A great deal more...

Davies is going to get fouled alot just by virtue of being a "back to the
basket" player... Probably an average of 10 shots a game... Wouldn't it
be great if he could sink 7 or 8 of them?

Sorry to hear about your loss BYU. It must be really tough Competing in such a
bad conference where pretty much the WCC is so poor that if you lose to anybody
other that Saint Mary and Gonzaga your tournament hopes pretty much die. Very
nice Work with the move from the Mountain West to the WCC.

wer... "second tier team" really? Did you read the part where they
almost beat Gonzaga?? What does the size of the gym have to do with
anything??Those gyms are at least full.They are above .500. No
whining, they admitted SD is a good team.I'm learning to be patient.
GO UTES!!!

I know there's nothing easier than playing armchair coach, but I don't
understand Rose's decision to play Zylstra so much and sit Sharp so much.
To call Zylsta a streaky shooter is a huge overstatement. I'm not sure he
makes enough shots to be called a streaky shooter. I cringe every time he puts
the ball up. Cusick doesn't look as good as he was last year.
Winder's good on defense, but nothing on offense. And this is from our
"shooting" guard. I'm really wishing DeMarcus Harrison could have
stayed to fill the void. Hopefully it will be better next year with
Collinsworth at the 3 spot and Haws at the 2.

Why don't we play
Delgado a little more? He adds a spark. And I'm a huge Kaufusi fan, but I
don't understand why we play him before Ambrosino when we need offense.

I think Zylstra is the Nelson of the basketball team. Winder needs more minutes
and Carlino needs a head slap when he plays like he did last night. NIT is the
best BYU can hope for and if they ply like last night even then its a one and
done.

The first ten minutes was great, then they couldn't do diddly right from
then on. Somehow it seemed they rushed things too much and often lost their way
and couldn't find the basket, not even from the f/t line. Carlino was
again inconsistent at best, and Zylstra and Sharpe were non existent for some
reason. You can't expect to ride on the shoulders of only two players
night in and night out, Davis and Haws. Heck, even they were not at their best
either, especially from the f/t line. They still could've won if they
hadn't left too many points on the floor. Seems like they really need to
work hard on their free throws and 3 point shots. They missed way too many it
was pitiful to watch. Here's hoping they'll work hard to improve on
those. As for an NCAA bid, well, not sure if even a miracle can help us at this
point. But, there's always the NIT.

This BYU team has been
playing with fire for weeks, falling behind lesser teams and then clawing their
way back to win close games, and it finally caught up with them against a team
playing with a lot of confidence at home.

As most fans have suspected
since December, BYU has some good players - Davies, Haws and Carlino - but
they're all very inconsistent, showing flashes of brilliance at times, but
not being able to sustain it. A Top 100 RPI, 20 to 25 win, bubble team, with a
chance to make the NCAA tournament, but little chance to do much after they got
there.

Last night, that bubble burst, and BYU is now NIT bound unless
they pull a semi-miracle and win the WCC tourney.

Likely scenario
going forward,

22-9 regular season, with a win in the WCC tourney and
2 wins in the NIT to finish 25-11.

Next year BYU will be better with
the return of Kyle Collinsworth, the addition of Eric Myca, and a more
experienced and mature Haws, Carlino, and Sharp as BYU's starting five.

Gonzaga almost lost to the same team. The road games in the WCC are certainly no
gimmies. Its almost looking like BYU is going to have to beat the Zags to get a
NCAA berth. Thats a tall task, but certainly do-able in Provo.

Thanks for the well wishes, but I don't see BYU
making the NCAA tourney this season. BYU has enough talent to do so, if Haws,
Carlino and Davies are hitting on all cylinders, but the rest of the team is
spotty at best. Zylstra, Sharp and Winder were no shows last night.

Surprising that the cougars missed so many free
throws last night. Especially Haws.

Been to the San Diego arena, it
is not a high school sized facility, about the same size as Suu's facility,
very nice.

Ute "fans" on here - glad you can find a forum
to try and make yourself feel better, but the points are getting old.

Checked ESPN conversations during Ute game yesterday-just out of curiosity.
It was funny to see the acerbic, defensive comments by the Ute fans in that
forum also, it is really rare to see comments like that on any other discussion
board during games from other schools. It seems that the Utes are taking the
role of the Wyoming of the Pac 12.